Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part One. Family, Schools, and the Challenges of Economic Opportunity and Social Reform
6. Chapter 1. Family and Schooling in Colonial and Nineteenth- Century America 3
7. Chapter 2. A Ray of Millennial Light: Early Education and Social Reform in the Infant School Movement in Massachusetts, 1826–40 17
8. Chapter 3. The Crisis in Moral Education in Antebellum Massachusetts 45
9. Chapter 4. Schooling and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century America 73
10. Chapter 5. Horace Mann on the Economic Productivity of Education 92
11. Chapter 6. Immigrants and Schooling 106
12. Part Two. Attendance, Institutional Arrangements, and Social Support for Education
13. Chapter 7. The Controversy over the Beverly High School 125
14. Chapter 8. Have We Underestimated the Extent of Antebellum High School Attendance? 142
15. Chapter 9. Public High School Attendance in Massachusetts in 1875 157
16. Chapter 10. Historical Development of Age Stratification in Schooling 171
17. Chapter 11. A Historical Perspective on Support for Schooling by Different Age Cohorts 194
18. References 213
19. Index 231